Team
Core

Niraj Pant
Co-founderGP @ Polychain, Research @ Decentralized Systems Lab, CS @ UIUC

Akilesh Potti
Co-founderPartner @ Polychain, ML @ Palantir, HFT, Quant Trading @ Goldman, ML Research @ {MIT, Cornell}

Arshan Khanifar
Research, Trading @ Polychain, RF @ Apple, EE @ UWaterloo

Arka Pal
Deepmind, Abacus, Kosen, University of Cambridge

Stef Henao
Head of People @ Protocol Labs, HRBP @ Coinbase, People Ops @ Hired, IB Analyst @ Credit Suisse

Naveen Durvasula
PhD student @ Columbia (Tim Roughgarden), Algorithmic Game Theory, EECS @ UC Berkeley

Tess Dore
Research & Engineering @ Lita, Nexus. Math PhD @ Stanford, Math @ Princeton

Maryam Bahrani
Research @ a16z crypto, CS PhD @ Columbia (Tim Roughgarden), Quant Trader @ Jane Street, CS @ Princeton

Hadas Zeilberger
PhD Student @ Yale (Ben Fisch), Cryptography, Researcher @ Consensys, Math @ Columbia

0xEmperor
Multi-disciplinary researcher - NLP and ML. Crypto research.

Praveen Palanisamy
Principal AI Eng @ Microsft AI & Research, CS @ CMU

Frieder Erdmann
TEEs @ Flashbots, CTO @ konVera

Micah Goldblum
Postdoc @ NYU (Yann Lecunn), AI; PhD @ University of Maryland (Tom Goldstein), Mathematics

Kartik Chopra
Founding Engineer @ Primev, CS @ University of Waterloo

Dan Gosek
CoS @ Ava Labs, Political Science & Economics @ Columbia

Charlie Wyse
Infrastructure & Engineering @ Ava Labs, Sony, Dreamworks, RedHat

Spencer Solit
Founding Engineer @ Seismic, CS & Math @ Penn, Cryptography / ML Research @ Penn

Jody Rebak
CoS @ Dapper Labs

Achal Srinivasan
Collaborator to Paradigm, dYdX, and more. Previously Coinbase, CS @ Rice.

Stelios Rousoglou
Founding Eng @ Alta, SWE @ C3, Masters in CS [AI] @ Stanford, CS @ Yale

Alluri Siddhartha
Ethereum Foundation (0xParc, PSE), CS @ UIUC (Daniel Kang)

Andrew Komo
PhD Student @ MIT, Algorithmic Game Theory, Jane Street, Math & CS @ MIT

Sarah McNeely
TPM @ Near, LucidWorks, PhD English Literature @ TCU

Jeanine Boselli
Ops @ Palantir, Protocol Labs

Mayank Pandey
PhD student @ Princeton (Peter Sarnak), Analytic Number Theory, Math @ Caltech, Citadel

Peiyuan Liao
CTO + Co-Founder @ rabbit, ZKML @ zk-ml.xyz, ML systems research & GNNs @ CMU, GM @ Kaggle

Louai Zahran
Olympiad enthusiast + Medalist
Interns

Rahul Thomas
Quant Research @ HAP, ML Research @ Stanford, olympiad enthusiast, RSI, Math & CS @ Stanford

Erica Choi
Topology & ML Research @ Columbia + Georgia Tech, CS & Math @ Columbia

Teo Kitanovski
CS @ Vanderbilt, Co-Founder @ eBionyx, IOI medalist

William Gvozdjak
Math & CS @ MIT, olympiad enthusiast, MIT PRIMES

Arthur Liang
LLM & Neuro Research @ CSAIL, CS & Math @ MIT
Advisors

Illia Polosukhin
Founder @ Near, Google Research, Tensorflow & Transformers, Co-Author "Attention is All You Need"

Arthur Hayes
CIO @ Maelstrom, Co-Founder @ BitMEX and 100x Group, Economics @ Wharton

Noam Nisan
Professor @ Hebrew University, Gödel Prize, Knuth Prize, Research @ Starkware, Research @ Google

Sreeram Kannan
Founder @ EigenLayer, Assistant Prof @ UW, Postdoc @ Stanford, PhD @ UC Berkeley

Tarun Chitra
Founder @ Gauntlet, GP @ Robot Ventures, HFT, DE Shaw Research, Math & CS @ Cornell

Divya Gupta
Partner @ Sequoia, ML @ Airbnb, Databricks, Palantir, CS @ Stanford

Sid Reddy
Research Scientist @ Isomorphic Labs, Meta Reality Labs, Deepmind, PhD @ UC Berkeley (Sergey Levine), CS @ Cornell